Which Is More Important? The Right to Discriminate, or Freedom from Discrimination?

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View Poll Results: What's More Important - the "Right" to Discriminate, or Freedom From Discrimination?

Re: Which Is More Important? The Right to Discriminate, or Freedom from Discriminati

Originally Posted by Summerwind

If you are open to the general public, you are a public business. If you are a government entity, you are not a public business, as you are not a business, you are the government.

Maybe a better way to put this would be to say that a business is granted a license by the government to operate within the public sphere, or more accurately within and as a part of our society. By being granted and accepting the license, you are agreeing to offer your services or products to anyone in our society that has the means to remunerate you. This is only limited in certain instances by other external laws, none of which have a bearing on race, creed, color or sex. For instance, you have to require a prescription to sell certain medication, you cannot sell a weapon to a felon and you cannot sell cigarettes to underage children.

Without the license to operate as a business, commerce is limited or not allowed.

We as a people have determined that it is in the best interest of our society to restrict business/commerce to those that agree to follow certain rules. Among those rules are tax laws, anti-discrimination laws in hiring, paying and promotion of employees as offering of services or products for sale and many, many others.

If a person doesn't want to follow the laws of our society, then they can attempt to change the laws by legal means, or by electing like minded people to government to change the law through legislation.

There are a number of examples of the legal means in recent SCOTUS rulings, either affirming or changing these laws.

Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, don't blame someone else, or expect others to make a change, you should stop complaining and make a different choice. Remember, the circumstances of your birth don't determine the outcome of your life.

Re: Which Is More Important? The Right to Discriminate, or Freedom from Discriminati

Originally Posted by Federalist

Do you feel as if you have the right to violate the person or property of your neighbor in order to prevent him from operating a business?

In what way do you mean?

Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, don't blame someone else, or expect others to make a change, you should stop complaining and make a different choice. Remember, the circumstances of your birth don't determine the outcome of your life.